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Pierwsza nowoczesna retrotopia? "Don Kichote" Miguela de Cervantesa w perspektywie późnego Zygmunta Baumana

2022

The article considers Cervantes's classical work through the prism of retrotopia, as understood in late Bauman. Retrotopia is a double negation of utopia, an attempt to return to an imaginary past, which usually happens in the face of an uncertain future. The first part of the article indicates a clear analogy between the conceptualization of retrotopia and Don Quixote's key themes. These include the issue of nostalgia for times past, the problem ofviolence,ora return to tribal thinking in terms o f”us” versus "them.” The second part o f the text briefly examines Don Quixote as an expression of retrotopian longing for an imaginary past o f a Golden Age, an idyllic era of justice and humanis…